Mid-Atlantic US (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Known as the “Federal City,” Washington, DC has undergone extensive archaeological excavation and analysis, in part due to American law that requires pre-construction testing for federal government-related construction projects. However, this wealth of data is understudied and rarely revisited after...
Roads of Rebellion and Resistance: Tracing English and Indigenous Paths Across Virginia’s Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677) was the first wide-scale armed insurrection in English America. Trouble began in 1675 in Virginia’s Northern Neck with retaliatory raids between colonial militias and Native Americans. While some settlers dug in, fortifying their plantations, others rallied behind...